Maureen Hernandez
Senior Software Engineer at Upstart
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolMaureen Hernandez is a senior software engineer with 10+ years building scalable, data-heavy FinTech systems and leading cross-functional teams from startups to larger organizations. At Upstart she drives Auto Finance integrations and performance improvements—authoring technical roadmaps and shipping frontend and backend solutions that measurably increased conversion and enabled broad dealer distribution. Her stack fluency spans Node.js, Python, Ruby on Rails, Nest.js, AWS, Databricks/DBT, Kafka and observability tools, paired with strong practices in DDD and TDD. She has led engineering teams and migrations (monorepos, CI/CD, Fargate) that cut release cycles dramatically while also contributing front-end UX fixes to notable open-source projects like Kolibri. Maureen’s background in spectrum policy and Internet access advocacy, combined with a Master’s in Technology Management, gives her a rare blend of technical depth and systems-level thinking about access and scale. Outside work she continuously prototypes side projects and applies YC-inspired startup insights to practical product and team problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
systems engineer, Computer Engineering, systems engineer, Computer Engineering at Universidad de los Andes (VE)CCNA, networking, CCNA, networking at Cisco Networking AcademyMaster’s in Management of Technology and Telecommunications Services, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Master’s in Management of Technology and Telecommunications Services, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Universidad de San Andrés
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
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vue10
vue-jsx10
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html9
edtech9
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
learningequality/kolibri
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Kolibri Learning Platform: the offline app for universal education
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Maureen primarily contributed to the front-end components of the Kolibri Learning Platform, focusing on UI improvements and bug fixes within the coach module. Their work involved modifying existing views such as the learner list page, group sections, and exam pages. They incorporated new features like adding a validation messages and applying styles to the "New Exam" button. The user made various adjustments to enhance the user experience and fix translation issues.
learning-platformoerofflineoffline-firstkolibri
MauHernandez/MauHernandez.github.io
May 2016 - Nov 2021
Personal site
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 6 months
react
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